When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

Every moment is all the things that have happened before and all the things that are going to happen, and...the way all those things look at one point on their way along a line.

It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise.

I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually.

I'm a person with virtually no feelings.

Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.

It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science

Red-hot anger takes away a lot of the heartache.

Be "Yourself" enough to have an opinion, Be "Wise" enough to recognise a difference of opinion, Be "Mature" enough to find a way for co-existence.

The eagle that soars in the upper air does not worry itself how it is to cross rivers.

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard.

We had the camera locked, but not the location of the sun.

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time.